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This course is for people who want to learn
how to use Macromedia Flash to create animated poetry, in which
words move around, change colour and size, and so on. It will also
be of value to those who want to animate other forms of text. This
course includes a FREE induction week.
See the Gallery
for examples of work by students on this course.
Student
Comments: "I'm astonished by how much I learned
about Flash in six short weeks; I had high hopes and they were far
exceeded." "After paddling on the edge for ages, this
course actually enabled me to start making work in Flash. Peter
Howard is very clear and helpful, the course is well thought through;
the assignments are both challenging and fun. The most useful writing
course I've ever done."
The tutor: Peter Howard
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Peter Howard is a telecommunications
system design consultant and poet. His poems have appeared
in many print and on-line journals, and he has won numerous
prizes, including 2nd prize in the 2000 Daily Telegraph/Arvon
competition. He is a Literature Assessor for Eastern Arts
Board. He has run several courses on Internet Poetry and Literature.
His animated poems have appeared on several WWW sites, including
Snakeskin, Boomerang and the BBC ArtZone. 'A selection of
his poetry appears in the OxfordPoets 2001 anthology. His
own website at http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
contains a regularly updated list of poetry sites, hypertext
poems, dynamic poems, and animated poems using Macromedia
Flash. If you want to find out more about him, that's probably
a good place to look.
This course is 10 weeks including a FREE
Induction Week.
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The aims of this course are:
- The course will provide participants with
a repertoire of skills for animating text using Macromedia Flash.
- It will encourage those with limited Flash
experience to develop their skills and expertise.
- It will encourage participants to examine
the effect of various animation techniques on their poems, and
to evaluate their appropriateness.
Contents
- preparing a poem for treatment with Flash
- making words or phrases change size, colour,
position, shape
- Flash for hypertext poetry
- using masks to control how text is displayed
- breaking up letters into shapes for additional
effects
- using all these effects together with sounds
to complement your words.
Typical Reading
You need to have a basic working knowledge
of Flash, so it would be useful to have completed the lessons and
tutorials. You'll need to have some idea of the poems you'd like
to animate.
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this
course you should be able to:
- select and prepare a poem or other text
for Flash animation;
- control appearance, including size, font,
colour, position and visibility;
- permit viewer interaction;
- incorporate sound appropriately.
- You will have sufficient command of the
ActionScript language to be able to control how a movie plays.
Typical assessments
There will be three assignments. Each will
be to produce a Flash animation using techniques learned in the
course. They will include:
- a movie where words change shape, position,
colour, visibility
- a movie which uses buttons to let the viewer
move through the movie
- a movie which relies on visibility or otherwise
of text to achieve its effect, or which uses sound to enhance
its effect
Pre-requisites for this course
You will need to:
- Be able to use search engines
- Be able to use the internet and web-browsers
- Be able to design a basic web-page and/or
write basic HTML
- Be able to write and understand English
reasonably fluently
- Be interested in experimentation
- Have some experience of working with digital
images
- Have some experience of working with digital
sound
- Have some experience of writing poetry
at a basic level
- Be able to use Flash at a basic level
- To do this course, you should have the following
software installed on your computer: a copy of Flash 4, Flash
5 or Flash MX.
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